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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: This is where the issue of alignment comes into play.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: As I cannot see the witness's name, I cannot refer to her directly, but she referred a couple of times to the causeway system in Northern Ireland in reference to the justice hub. The Chairman mentioned the Central Statistics Office, CSO, and that we did not want to see a situation to arise where the work was done and the CSO might complain about the form the statistics took. As mentioned,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Is there a projected finishing date for the project?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (7 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Ms Kiely mentioned sensitive data. Even if the hub is established perfectly and working in real time, it is worth noting that there have recently been data breaches within the HSE related to the termination of pregnancies. We were warned that that would probably happen; I just want to flag that there are people who are very fond of accessing everybody's information. If information in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: School Equipment (12 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 402. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Number 129 of 21 November 2018 to the Minister for Education and Skills, the way in which an application can be made through the aids and appliances scheme administered by the HSE regarding computer equipment for a person (details supplied) [6516/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I have lived my life looking for gold stars.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for coming in. Has a new director of public health been appointed? What is the status of the independent patient safety council, if the witnesses have that information? I do not want to repeat questions that were already asked and I have been keeping an eye on what has been going on. In terms of the eradication of cervical cancer, and we have spoken here before...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Did we ever have a quality assurance lead before?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: What were they doing if they were not looking at the quality of the laboratory? What quality were they assessing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: The people we had in charge of quality were not up to scratch, essentially.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Saying an additional skill set is needed is essentially saying it is not up to scratch.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: It was needed, clearly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: With regard to auditing, Dr. McKenna referred to the auditing of interval cancers. My understanding is that what he is saying is that there would be a standard way of auditing as opposed to different areas having different ways of operating.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: How are we on that system regarding how to audit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: An issue that was raised here last week and again this morning is the option to have an additional smear test. There seems to be constant reference to whether it was a good or bad idea. As somebody who sometimes works in the community and engages a lot with people in community health, I would point out to the committee that there was significant demand when there was an information vacuum....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Following on from Deputy Durkan's point, is Mr. Breslin really saying that we cannot look at laboratory A's results and laboratory B's results and compare them because the tests going into the laboratories could be different patient cohorts? More women over the age of 55, for example, would automatically show cell abnormalities. The laboratory's results would depend on the batch. If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Absolutely. I am just trying to add to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: They have already been triaged as more than likely with something wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: On the issue of HPV herd immunity, we went down to a rate of 52% immunisation with girls. Where are we now with percentages of HPV vaccine uptake after all of the catch-up programmes? Are we still going up the graph as opposed to down the graph for uptake of the vaccine among young girls? Although I am very supportive of boys also getting the vaccine in September, it is very important to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Dr. McKenna might give some examples to the committee. I am thinking of prolapses and so on. Perhaps Dr. McKenna could indicate what these 20,000 to 30,000 women are living with.